A beautiful box set containing four of the most loved children's classics: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Best Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen, The Secret Garden, and Anne of Green Gables.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis
Carroll, was born in 1832. His most famous works are Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the
Looking-Glass (1871). He died in 1898.
Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. His
Fairy Tales, the first children's stories of their kind, which were
published in instalments from 1835 until his death in 1875, have
been translated into more than a hundred languages and adapted for
every kind of media.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester in 1849 and moved to
America in 1865, where she launched a literary career in which she
produced over forty books including A Little Princess (1905) and
The Secret Garden (1911). Frances died in 1924.
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in
1874. Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908, was her first novel
and has remained in print across the world ever since. Montgomery
died in Toronto in 1942.
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